Introduction : Bede Griffiths as visionary guide / Wayne Teasdale -- The four rivers of Bede / Sunder Wells -- A tribute / Raimon Panikkar -- "At Shantivanam" and "Evening meditation" / John F. Baker -- Bede Griffiths at Apple Farm : a personal memory / Helen Luke -- A way of initiation / Odette Baumer-Despeigne -- In the beginning was music / Russill Paul D'Silva -- The monk as a bridge between east and west / James Conner -- Existential breakthrough / Pascaline Coff -- Meditative technologies : theological ecumenism / Thomas Keating -- Christianity and the eastern religions : the possibiblity of mutual growth / Wayne Teasdale -- Poems from Jonah : the new story, poem #28 / Albert J. LaChance -- New possibilities for interreligious dialogue / Paul Knitter -- Abandonment to God : Jean-Pierre de Caussade and the Bhagavad Gita / Robert L. Fastiggi -- Multireligious experience and the study of mysticism / Judson B. Prapnell -- Christ and the Buddha embracing / Michael von Brück -- God as feminine : experiencing wholeness / Felicity Edwards -- The one and the many : communitarian nondualism / Beatrice Bruteau -- Poems from Jonah : warning from the earth, poem #30 / Albert J. LaChance -- Spirituality for a new era : a dialogue / Matthew Fox and Bede Griffths -- Mysticism and the new science / Rupert Sheldrake -- The Ecozoic era / Thomas Berry